Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 12 (ANI): A total of 3135 candidates were elected unopposed in the Panchayat elections from Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.

Bhopal Dec 20 PTI Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday claimed panchayat polls in her party-ruled Madhya Pradesh without reservation for the Other Backward Classes OBCs will be injustice with about 70 per cent of the states population She urged state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to find a way out that these polls are not held without ensuring the participation of the OBCs Last Friday the Supreme Court directed the Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission SEC to stay the poll process on seats reserved for Other Backward Classes OBCs in the local body there and re-notify those seats for the general category Expressing concern over the stay on OCB reservation in the Madhya Pradesh panchayat polls Bharti in a tweet said I have spoken to MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh ji over phone today morning and urged him that the panchayat elections in the state without the OBC reservation will be injustice with about 70 of the population Our Madhya Pradesh government must find a way out that the panchayat elections are not held without finding a solution to ensure the participation of OBCs Shivraj ji has informed me that he is consulting legal experts on this subject the former state CM said in another tweet Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission SEC Commissioner B P Singh had on Saturday said in compliance with the Supreme Court order the election process for general elections 2021-22 of the three-tier panchayat system for the posts of panch sarpanch and members of the janpad and jila panchayats on seats reserved for the OBCs has been postponed He had also said the process of polls on other seats will continue as per the schedule announced by the commission earlier A total of 155 posts of members of jila panchayats 1273 members of janpad panchayats 4058 sarpanchs and 64353 posts of panch had been reserved for OBCs during this election process On December 4 the SEC had announced polling for 859 posts of district panchayats across 52 districts in MP 6727 posts under 313 janpad panchayats sarpanchs of 22581 village panchayats and 362754 posts of panch members in three phases on January 6 January 28 and February 16 respectively PTI ADU GK GK

Hapur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 22 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated multiple development projects worth Rs 340 crores in the Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.